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DARPA Green Lights Raytheon Phase 3 Persistent Close Air Support Program

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

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DARPA Green Lights Raytheon Phase 3 Persistent Close Air Support Program

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Raytheon [RTN] is beginning the 18-month, $25.5 million Phase 3 under an option exercised by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program. The third phase of the PCAS program is to run from January 2014 through mid-2014 and is scheduled to culminate in a series of flight tests and live-fire demonstrations. PCAS software could enable ground troops to receive close air support sooner by improving coordination among joint terminal attack controllers, airborne sensors and…

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